From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 23 16:12:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lorax.ubergeeks.com (lorax.ubergeeks.com [209.145.74.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929A337BD64; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:12:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by lorax.ubergeeks.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09513; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 19:12:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 19:12:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Mike Smith Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No /boot/loader (dangerously dedicated) In-Reply-To: <200007232102.OAA17013@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I explicitly installed _all_ production machines "dangerously dedicated" > > _to_get_around_ geometry problems. So I could swap SCSI controllers > > of different brands with different translations. > > That was a silly idea. Orginal story: Patient: Doctor, my head hurts when I do this. (Patient hits head with board.) Doctor: Well, stop doing that. Recast with geeks: User: Guru, my MBR compatible disk doesn't boot when I do this. (User installs new controller or moves disk to a machine with an incompatable geometry translation.) OLD: Guru: Well, don't use MBR compatible partitioning. NEW: Guru: That was a silly idea. The "OLD" answer has been the more useful one historically speaking. I guess my problem is that I've always seen dedicated mode as a solution, and not a problem. I'm struggling to see what I've been missing all this time or need to loose in the future by staying with dedicated mode. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message